China's Hubei seeks to attract foreign investors.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

(New China News Agency)

Wuhan, 7 April: Booming economic development zones, scaffolds everywhere and detailed foreign investment guides - like other places in China, the central province of Hubei is doing its utmost to attract overseas investors as part of its goal to make the province one of China's economic growth engines.

"Central China must accelerate the pace of opening-up to the outside world and narrow the gap between central and eastern, coastal areas by taking advantage of the opportunities presented by Hubei," said vice-governor of Hubei Province, Han Zhongxue.

Hubei lies at the middle …